Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-13
EREVIVIEs.

Ma age IN the city.
n. poxet Mil Compsns's steamer
yssins vas 10 port 81 yesterday after
soon.
train lead Of legs arrived for The
conmercial Mil, over the Shore Line,
yesterday
Tss ting BlakeIy vss ct our vhsrves
,a.ssTdsy, preparatory 70 leaving for
Pot Townsend.
The ship 81. Stephen Il nov loading
A ~ buukers. and the Two Brothers u
sisshsFRing ballast ct the Ocean Dock.
d jackson spent the day IN Seat
N. Yesterday. arranging for the con-
strsction Of q number Of houses IN this
sitJ.
Tia schaoner CozrsaE arrived here
,a.tsrday afternoon in TOW Of ths tug
bakslV. she Gill load lumber 81 stet-
90 4 Posts mill.
The Msnzsnita took the Lighthouse
IaspscsaF on board and starred of vet
lerdsy on q cruise 10 the various light
bosses on the Soand.
Charles ". Young, Of Tacoma, IL en-
uloysd By the Northern Psci1c Rail
rsaA Company east Of the mountains as
uspeotor Of ties and timber.
The msny friends Of Mr.. Builene will
4 uleased TO learn that be is again able
b s. a. bis Office, after a ssveFe illness,
which kept him bed fast for over two
vsska
A heavy logging locomotive arrived
here Friday evening from the East for
gke Poget Mil Company, TO be used on
their mes railroad at tie head Of Hoods
Canal.
Mr.. Charles Henry and family leave
essttIe this morning for tbeir old home
6 wslla WaIla, where Mr.. Henry will
ether 20 into the real estate. or furni-
lnfs businfss.
Tbs auxiliary steam schooner j. l..
Perry, Captain Bowden, arrived here
ysstsrday fsom the lower Sound coun-
~ With SO sacks Of oats for one Of our
heal ost shippers.
Ths United States Lighthouse tender
MaE9snita loaded 1000 sacks Of authrs
sts coal ct this port for the various
EehtbOuses, and will retuHn Monday for
franklin coal for fuel.
The Liberal League will meet at Odd
Fellows Hall Sunday evening at 7:30
sslook. sabisot@-Was this world ere
alsd, or has Il always existed and been
governed By natural lsw7
The Washington Fsncibles are max
Ing extensive preparations for their sec
01d ball, 10 be given by them on the
evening Of Sc. PatTiek's Day, March
II, 1857, ct Turn Verein Hall.
The steamer Cleaner. loaded with
general merchandise, principally for the
Seattle Hop Growers Association AZ
snoquslmIs, left for the Snohomish and
sboquAlmie rivers yesterday afternoon
The new American arc lights OF the
S5itle Gas and Electric Company we're
lshtsd for the erst time in this city
list evening. They are much superior
to the system recently discarded by the
osmpsby.
While the family Of Mr.. Ooyle. Of the
Ulper Cascades, were at supper on
Thursday evening blast was 6rei 10
80 tIosv'tioR near by, and a piece OF
rock was driven through a window,
striking Mr.. Co5le's little daughter
Teresa, 3 wears and 6 months old, on
TOE bead, killing her instantly.
Mr.. Thomas Hill, the celebrated
American landscape painter. IL at the
Occidental. He is on his way to
Alaska, where he proposes to transfer
70 canvas some of the wonderful
scenery OF that region. He proposes
Spending few days With his daughter
81 Pert Blakely before leaving for the
isF Northwest.
Captain II. +. Beecher, special agent
1.-THE Treasury Department., socompan-
kd BY his wife a d family. passed
ihfuugh Seattle Yesterday on his way t.
San Francisco Vfa Portland. TIE re
port that Captain Beecher WAS on his
way to San Francisco when bis father
sckened and died, was absolutely with
cot foundation, an the captain was In
fou Townsend all the time.
John Schwitzer wishes the Posr.
iSrELIidENCER TO say; "Ths report -
We effect that have sold any land At
salmon Bay In false, and | want Il dis
tine.ly understood that I have never
sold foot Of land since ! have besn In
the ooantry, and | never will till the
decision OF the Interior Department il
in my favor; then | prohabl will o. II
enough OF aforesaid land 20 enable me
10 improve the balance OF the property.
l am a poor man, and cane make
enonRh to support myself aud family
on the place, therefore | will al seine
time probably SELL"
The coal nine mentioned IN these
columns yesterday morning as having
hesn purchased by Mr.. Peter Kirke, Of
England, and his associates for SIS, 900,
Comprises section 2. township n. range
east. In other words IL is located be
tSees Green and Cedar rivers. few
miles north Cas, OF Franklin. The land
vas taken 40 few years ago by James
heeley, Bernard Duffy. p. Duty and
william Arm tronR, four citizens ~
Aeweastle, Who have ever since held
possession Of IL, but have not teen able
70 paw the government for it yet. Mr..
Aifke advances tbs $40 per acre to the
government, ard paws the four gentle
men named above $4,000. The coal on
his section is suitable for smelling iron
making gas, aud 50 far ia this Terri
Iofy bot three other coal deposits suit
sol1 tor those purposes have been dis
soyered.